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By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/20/01 2:26:26 PM
# Replies: 111
Okay, I don't know about you guys, but I plan to stay DRUNK for the duration of the war.
My question is: What's your favorite alcoholic beverage?
Me? I'd say a good white wine (Oregon Pinot) or beer (German or Belgian). Right now, a good Hefeweizen would rock my world.
Prost!
Response #1
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 9/20/01 3:19:27 PM
Mmmm...beer.
Response #2
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/20/01 9:21:16 PM
I'm discovering that I prefer wine to beer. You can slug a lot of wine without getting full the way you do with beer. I'd also like to go a little further with my recent Really Expensive Scotch experience, but there's a 'Really Expensive' part involved there.
Hmm. How many breweries are there in Fremont?
Response #3
By: sooz
Date: 9/21/01 4:50:35 AM
I like girlie beers (light/fruity) and the same kinds of wines. But occasionally, like for wars, only a good margarita will do.
Response #4
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/21/01 8:21:45 AM
Ah. The ole WAR MARGARITA. Yup. That's a good one. :-)
Yes, Homer. I have always thought a Guinness is a "meal" and not just a DRINK.
As for how many breweries are in Fremont... isn't there just ONE? Or am I missing some? Red Hook... What else?
Response #5
By: bob
Date: 9/24/01 10:56:17 AM
makers mark or jamesons, those are my main drinks. just give me some ice and some whiskey and i am happy
Response #6
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/24/01 12:15:53 PM
Hale's Ales, Hazel.
Oh, and I learned yesterday that Noodles, the noodle place that used to be in Fremont, is now in BALLARD. Because, as we all know: BALLARD RULES.
Response #7
By: Roxanne
Date: 9/25/01 10:59:21 AM
Rum.
Yum.
Response #8
By: Da Sissop
Date: 9/30/01 4:57:30 PM
Yo ho ho.
Response #9
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 8:01:58 AM
Hale's Ales! Damn. Missed that one.
So Noodles MOVED? Or there's a NEW ONE in Ballard?
Dude. Ballard does NOT rule (but it doesn't SUCK, either). :-)
Response #10
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/1/01 12:09:09 PM
They closed down in Fremont, and re-opened in Ballard. They were next to the Red Door, so I don't blame 'em for moving.
Response #11
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 2:06:39 PM
Everything GOOD is leaving Fremont. Waaaaaaa! (Kicking and screaming like a baby)
Response #12
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/9/01 6:01:22 PM
I just bought a case of really good Chardonnay from Costco. I'm think I'm set. If anyone needs to get a war-drunk goin' on, feel free to join us. ;-)
Response #13
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/9/01 8:09:36 PM
"really good Chardonnay" and "Costco" doesn't compute.
Response #14
By: bob
Date: 10/9/01 10:05:41 PM
hell, lost me on the really good chardonnay....
Response #15
By: sooz
Date: 10/10/01 7:19:26 AM
I didn't know "really good wines" come by the case.
Response #16
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/10/01 8:41:23 AM
Yes, Costco (at least the ones in Seattle) sells EXCELLENT wines, some up to $100 a bottle! (Who would buy these?)
Anyway, yes, you can buy a case. I got a really good French Chardonnay, normally $19 a bottle, got it for $15 a bottle (when ya buy the whole case). A STEAL!
(I happen to like white wine. A LOT.)
Response #17
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/10/01 9:14:23 AM
Well, yeah, a steal if you don't count you had to pay a bunch of extra money to get them at that price.
Response #18
By: bob
Date: 10/10/01 3:42:15 PM
seems like it would be easier to steel a bottle than a whole case
Response #19
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/10/01 5:39:57 PM
Well, if you drink (and serve) as much wine as we do in OUR HOUSE, it's cheaper to just buy a CASE for the discount price all at once. Trust me, I'm good at math. I know my bargains.
*Glugg*
Response #20
By: Cleotis
Date: 10/10/01 6:33:27 PM
Bargain wine? MD2020! I think you can actually polish copper with that stuff.
Response #21
By: sooz
Date: 10/11/01 11:18:51 AM
Boone's Farm, Strawberry Hill (or Tickled Pink).
Response #22
By: rorschach
Date: 10/11/01 1:11:01 PM
we buy 99.9% pure ethyl alchohol at work for cleaning hydraulic parts.....by the 55 gallon barrel. I call your MD2020 and raise you 54 1/2 gallons....
Response #23
By: sooz
Date: 10/11/01 7:06:48 PM
Ror* wins. Everyone, fold.
Response #24
By: rorschach
Date: 10/12/01 10:31:41 AM
I *ALWAYS* win.... one way or another....
Response #25
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/12/01 11:11:58 AM
Lucky bastard.
Response #26
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/13/01 2:49:04 AM
Don't worry. If he keeps drinking that stuff (or even standing near it), he won't be the winner for long...
Anyway. My housemate's new beau is way into bringing nice things over. Like whiskey. And he cooks dinner for the house. She gets the action, we get the leftovers. Rawk.
Response #27
By: bob
Date: 10/13/01 10:02:39 AM
your housemate lets you have his girlfriends "leftovers"?
Response #28
By: sooz
Date: 10/13/01 10:53:48 AM
I'm thinking the housemate is a girl, she has a boy beau that cooks, and the girl gets to fornicate, and homer gets leftover food, which is a win/win for everyone.
Response #29
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/13/01 6:44:08 PM
Yeah, that's what you THINK.
Response #30
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/15/01 3:23:14 AM
Sooz got it by reading for *content.* Beau = boy. I live with three astonishingly lovely women. It's like Charlie's Angels, and I'm Bosley.
Response #31
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/15/01 8:08:38 AM
I would say the LEFTOVERS are simply one of the top benefits of living there! You scored, man.
The down side is that all three women are "sync'd" up on their cycle. Imagine three women PMSing all at once. It can't be a pretty picture. :-)
Response #32
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/15/01 8:53:47 AM
I thought you lived with Marco. Of course, what the hell do I know?
Response #33
By: bob
Date: 10/15/01 12:39:22 PM
that is why homer goes on vacation once a month.
Response #34
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/15/01 1:17:17 PM
Way to go, Homey!
Hat trick chick score!
Response #35
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/15/01 1:22:14 PM
Marco lives in California. Right, Homer?
Anyway, if you're a guy, living with three chicks can't be bad (even if they're premenstrual angels). I think Homer is living the life many males would dare even dream about.
Me? I've got one bald guy and two fat wiener dogs in my house. It just doesn't sound as exotic.
Response #36
By: sooz
Date: 10/15/01 3:08:18 PM
There's a hot Latino love god and a teenager that eats too much here. I think I'll stay a while.
Response #37
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/15/01 6:10:17 PM
i've got three peace corps chicks in my house :)
Response #38
By: Dapper Dan
Date: 10/16/01 5:51:09 AM
Wait I am both.
Response #39
By: sooz
Date: 10/16/01 9:29:57 AM
You're both what, Dapper Dan -- a peace corps person or a chick?
Response #40
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/16/01 10:47:01 AM
I think Dan is still confused. Don't mind him. (He's just jealous of SoS and Homey.)
Response #41
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/17/01 4:58:27 AM
nothing to be real jealous of in my case. i wish those peace corps ladies would shave their legs.
Response #42
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/17/01 10:05:50 AM
I can give you *two* reasons why they shouldn't!
:)
Response #43
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/17/01 11:31:51 AM
Yes, leg hair might be more tolerable than nipple-less breasts.
Response #44
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/17/01 12:38:42 PM
that's true. and i'd rather they shave their chests and cut their legs, than the other way around.
Response #45
By: bob
Date: 10/17/01 1:46:28 PM
hahahahaha
Response #46
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/17/01 11:04:38 PM
I bet you do.
Response #47
By: bob
Date: 10/18/01 2:21:59 PM
i am not sure how i would vote...it is a toss up. hairly legs just are not as fun as smooth ones. besides, the possiblity of the "oh, do you want me to kiss it andmake it better?"
Response #48
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/18/01 5:08:39 PM
You'd kiss a bloody nipple?
Response #49
By: bob
Date: 10/18/01 10:28:35 PM
do i look picky at the moment? hahahaha
Response #50
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/19/01 10:17:39 AM
You have a point there, Sir.
Response #51
By: bob
Date: 10/19/01 10:44:08 AM
ahahhaha, thanks
Response #52
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/19/01 11:24:18 AM
would that be a "match point"? bahahahaha
Response #53
By: bob
Date: 10/19/01 12:44:51 PM
hahahahaha
Response #54
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/19/01 1:17:57 PM
(groan)
Response #55
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/20/01 2:43:59 AM
What's the problem with hairy legs? <-- spoken like a true Seattlite.
Response #56
By: sooz
Date: 10/20/01 9:06:40 AM
My husband prefers about a day-and-a-half of growth on my legs. That's a tricky balance to keep, but it's better than trying to be smooth as glass all the damned time.
Response #57
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/20/01 1:44:21 PM
My legs currently have the two-day stubble goin' on. How sexy!
Response #58
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/20/01 3:26:38 PM
And tomorrow it'll be Three Day Stubble!
(TDS, one of the good things about Houston, which is why they left.)
Response #59
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/20/01 3:35:41 PM
I especially like their motto: Twenty Years of Rubbing and Wiggling.
Response #60
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/21/01 12:28:15 AM
A friend of mine has a video tape of one of their performances, where the lead singer ate a whole jar of mayonnaise during the course of the show.
Response #61
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/21/01 11:29:45 AM
Do they have footage of the angioplasty he needed later?
Response #62
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/21/01 8:46:24 PM
I'm pretty sure he puked it all up afterwards (intentionally).
Response #63
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/22/01 8:29:54 AM
Now that is just vile.
Response #64
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/22/01 11:02:42 PM
Anything for art, eh?
Response #65
By: Cleotis
Date: 10/23/01 7:53:02 PM
Anywhere but the Nunnery, I would find the phrase "bloody nipple" repulsive.
Actually, it sounds like some sort of exotic mixed drink now that I've set it out on its own like that - out of context.
Response #66
By: sooz
Date: 10/23/01 8:31:26 PM
It's probably made with tomato juice and apricot schnapps or something.
Ick.
Response #67
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/24/01 11:20:51 AM
Nono, it's a buttery nipple with some red liquor layered on top.
Duh.
Response #68
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/24/01 1:42:19 PM
Yum! I do *love* buttery nipples!
Though I remember having a debate with my grandmother as to whether they are correctly called "buttery" nipples or "slippery" nipples. Apparently the same drink has two names.
Response #69
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/25/01 8:47:36 AM
I'd rather have a Fuzzy Navel or a Sex-On-The-Beach over a Nipple drink. Personal preference, I guess.
Response #70
By: bob
Date: 10/25/01 10:49:47 AM
wow, this is making me hot. hahahaha
Response #71
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/25/01 11:04:36 AM
Here. Have a cold shower, Bob.
Response #72
By: bob
Date: 10/26/01 11:55:36 AM
you want me to have a shower? does that mean you know about the webcam?
Response #73
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/26/01 6:08:38 PM
Dammit. Sooz told!
Response #74
By: bob
Date: 10/28/01 10:29:31 AM
she wasn't supposed to tell anyone about that. now i suppose i will have to unplug it.
Response #75
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/29/01 8:09:29 AM
*Sob*
Response #76
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 11/29/01 7:17:26 AM
so back to the original subject, the lead singer of three day stubble ate a whole jar of mayonnaise on stage? i don't really believe it anymore than I believe it when meatloaf flies across the stage. did you ever think he might have replaced the mayo with yogurt? did you check for a plastic seal around the lid? well, did you homer??
Response #77
By: bob
Date: 11/29/01 11:59:16 AM
meatloaf can't really fly? what about when he was skinny? hahahaha
Response #78
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/30/01 1:39:22 AM
No, I didn't run a sample through the mass spectrometer, either. I have failed you.
Response #79
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/30/01 6:49:59 PM
I bet Meatloaf was the one who really ate the jar of mayonnaise.
Response #80
By: sooz
Date: 12/1/01 7:12:47 PM
Since we're on the topic of nasty things to eat... a friend I work with said she'd be making enchiladas for dinner one evening. I asked if she made good ones... I was skeptical, because she's white, see. I know, I know, I'm a racist. So anyway... she brings some to work with her the next day as her proof that she can make 'em good.
They contained both sour cream and cream of mushroom soup.
I haven't even told my partly-Hispanic husband (the part that cooks).
Response #81
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/1/01 9:10:30 PM
Soup Enchilada. Sounds like the name of a Frank Zappa song.
Response #82
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/2/01 5:50:44 PM
Dammit. I woulda given it back and said "No. Make me an ENCHILADA, honey, not cream soup in a shell." Even I (a white Yankee girl) know how to make a mean burrito. (Okay, so I learned from my Texan hubby.)
Response #83
By: rorschach
Date: 12/3/01 11:38:03 AM
that's just sad... and in Austin no less..... hell over half the population of Austin is hispanic (as is Houston!), it ain't mexican food when the majority are mexican... it's just FOOD..... just about every restaraunt has some kind of mexican food on the menu. even Pappa Johns gives you a Jalepeno with every Pizza! where in hell is this woman from? Canada? (you can't find decent mexican food there.. I know, I've tried.....)
Response #84
By: sooz
Date: 12/3/01 3:54:10 PM
I have a friend that's in China right now, teaching English as a second language. She's from Detroit, but lived in Austin for a few years... and she's sending me e-mail, whining for tortilla soup. :-)
Response #85
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 12/3/01 4:21:19 PM
Actually, Papa John's pizzas come with pepperoncinis, not jalapenos.
That and the garlic-flavored liquid lard make it all worthwhile.
Response #86
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/3/01 11:03:35 PM
When I lived in Germany, there were TWO Mexican restaurants in the entire greater-Munich area. And since it was considered a "delicacy" or "gourmet" food, it was extremely expensive.
It was my friend Klaus' birthday. We asked him where he wanted to go. He said (name of one of the two Mexican places) so imagine everyone oooohing and aaaaahing over the food, and I'm like "And? What's the big deal?"
I finally got wise and every time I threw a little party or a dinner, I made Mexican (I found most of the ingredients at the local ASIAN import store, of all durned places) and people went NUTS!!!! They thought I was the best cook on the planet. I also made a mean homemade chili. I was the culinary star.
Response #87
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/4/01 12:36:05 PM
See? That's what's so great about America: Our prole food is better than their delicacies! God bless ground beef!
Response #88
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/4/01 1:24:01 PM
And green chilis! (Everything tastes better with green chilis, in my opinion!) ;-)
Speaking of Mexican food, Homer... that was humorous to answer my phone in Atlanta, and have you on the other end asking me to go out for burritos with ya. (Had you been in GA, I would have gladly picked ya up! ;-))
Response #89
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/4/01 11:26:16 PM
Hey, you said to call on the cell... so...
Response #90
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/5/01 8:34:09 AM
By the way, I would argue with you, Homer, that "our simple food is better than their delicacies". They had some amazing foods in Europe that *I* deemed as a delicacy.
I also ate WAY HEALTHIER over there than I do here. Their idea of "fast food" is a lot healthier than OURS. Of course they have McDonalds, too. But they also have rotisserie-chicken on every corner. Also, with a large Turkish population, they also had Gyros every five feet. You could pick up a salad at a market stand to-go. And the veggie pizzas were TO DIE FOR.
Of course you can get excellent Bratwurst everywhere, too, which isn't exactly "healthy", but at least they have HARSH regulations as to what they put in their sausages (unlike the United States who throw in pigs eyes and beef testicles).
Response #91
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/5/01 6:32:13 PM
But the eyes and testicles are the best part! Damn euros!
Response #92
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/6/01 8:50:47 AM
Well, Homer, you are the only customer who feels that way, and I'm sure you are their #1 customer...
Response #93
By: rorschach
Date: 12/6/01 11:13:24 AM
what? never heard of moutain oysters?
Response #94
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/6/01 12:46:15 PM
Nope. And I don't WANT to, either.
Response #95
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/6/01 7:33:14 PM
Hey, Hazel.. Have you been to Diggety Dog? It's up where the Honeybear used to be, in Greenlake/Wallingford. Gourmet sausages in a bun.
Response #96
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/7/01 8:06:37 AM
Nope. Never heard of it. (Is Honey Bear GONE!?!?!?)
Response #97
By: bob
Date: 12/7/01 10:11:19 AM
i helped to harvest mountain oysters once
Response #98
By: rorschach
Date: 12/7/01 11:13:24 AM
Mountain Oysters = Bovine Testicles
Response #99
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/7/01 11:32:42 AM
And Bob helped HARVEST Bovine Balls? Wow. I'm impressed.
Response #100
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/7/01 7:28:40 PM
Honeybear gone. Zoka's still down the street.
The thing about mountain oysters is that they come from the least valuable bulls (the ones it was OK to slaughter), so they don't have the big mojo, which is the whole point of eating the balls instead of the meat.
Response #101
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/7/01 8:19:54 PM
The whole point? Jeeeez. I didn't know there WAS a point to it.
Response #102
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/8/01 11:39:36 AM
Eat big testicle, make man virile!
Response #103
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/9/01 5:53:55 PM
Ick.
Response #104
By: bob
Date: 12/10/01 10:55:35 AM
actually, the reason they are removed, typically at a young age, is so that the hormones are not wasted on sex drive, and the steers grow bigger and stronger. this makes the meat better whent hey are slaughtered. one bull is used to fertalize many cows, so the boys are trimmed for more money.
Response #105
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/10/01 12:15:45 PM
makes good sense bob. just imagine all i could have accomplished without this pesky sex drive!
Response #106
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/10/01 1:10:05 PM
Me, too. And I'm not even a male.
Response #107
By: bob
Date: 12/10/01 2:10:23 PM
no shit, sos. the way things have been going lately, i am considering cutting mine off, too.
Response #108
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/10/01 3:06:38 PM
Bob, don't do that. I won't have anything to look at when I lift up your kilt!
Response #109
By: bob
Date: 12/11/01 10:38:40 AM
well, in that case...
Response #110
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/12/01 12:14:05 AM
One of my housemates recently got her Norplant removed. Things Have Changed Around Here. :-)
Response #111
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/12/01 10:42:28 AM
Yikes. Well, if you need a place to hide out for a while, my door's open.